LLA (Landscapes as leverage) is a landscape-architecture and research practice based in Rotterdam, NL. It operate at the intersection of urban strategy and ecological unruliness with a particular focus on Wilderness.
In the era of the Anthropocene, facing profound climate and biodiversity challenges, it is time to embrace the call of the wild. LLA explores and cultivates wilderness by design, fostering new relationships between human and non-human worlds, towards resilient, vibrant, and symbiotic futures.
Through landscape architecture and garden design, LLA engages with a fundamental shift away from human-centric control towards co-existence and co-creation, from fragmentation towards nurturing ecological continuity, from an imposed uniformity towards inherent uniqueness.
LLA was founded in 2024 by Philippe Allignet. The studio works on a wild range of international projects from masterplans to public spaces and garden designs, in between the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Philippe Allignet is a landscape-architect graduated from the Amsterdam Academie van Bouwkunst in 2020. He worked various offices across the Netherlands (H+N+S+, BOOM, OKRA) before founding LLA.
His personal practice started before the creation of LLA. He tested and refined his design approach at different scales on the side through manifesto gardens (2020, 2024 in Chaumont sur Loire) and landscape-based vision competitions (2017 - the LeNotre institute student competition | 2022 - Amiter idea competition).
Beside these activity, he also engaged in education in various academies accross the Netherlands to this day.